Education and Training

After completing my studies at the École des Mines Poincaré I spent a short while as a mining engineer at Vesoul while completing my doctoral work.

12/1875 -
12/1878

Scientific and commercial methods of the mining industry

École des Mines

The École des Mines de Paris was one of the first schools to incorporate training in economics and the social sciences in the curriculum for engineers

12/1875 -
12/1879

Doctorate in mathematics from the University of Paris

École des Mines

Remainder of the thesis is a little confused and shows that the author was still unable to express his ideas in a clear and simple manner. Nevertheless, considering the great difficulty of the subject and the talent demonstrated, the faculty recommends that M Poincaré be granted the degree of Doctor with all privileges.

First prizes in the concours général, Monster of Mathematics, a competition between the top pupils from all the Lycées across France.

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Celestial mechanics, fluid mechanics, the special theory of relativity and the philosophy of science. My research involve different mathematical topics.

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Play classic music with the piano

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Article by: J J O'Connor and E F Robertson

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03/12/2006 15:58:17 1525 168

Dear Sirs,
at the moment when I put my foot on the step the idea came to me, without anything in my former thoughts seeming to have paved the way for it, that the transformation that I had used to define the Fuchsian functions were identical with those of non-euclidean geometry.
Best Regards
Henri Poincaré